Ok, it's a love/hate relationship. I love programming in Eclipse, but when it comes to updating the editor it's a total nightmare.

How is it that everytime a new Eclipse is released I have to download the whole editor, install it separately from my existing one, and then re-install all the addons I'm using, and also setup all my projects again. If I persist on using ONE version older (3.3.1 instead of 3.3.2) then I hit a wall regarding adding new addons, since most current addons require the newest version of Eclipse.

I'm really starting to get annoyed by Eclipse. I have 3 installs of it on my disk, all pretty much messed up. Now I have to upgrade to the newest version!

Is there no way to upgrade my existing Eclipse? I've tried installing (unzipping) of existing installations but everything went totally fubar.

Is there no way to upgrade my existing Eclipse? I've tried installing (unzipping) of existing installations but everything went totally fubar.

IIRC the docs explicityly say not to do this because it causes all sorts of trouble.

Yeah, I also find upgrading Eclipse versions a bit of a pain, but usually I only tend to do it once a year at most so it's hardly a major problem. I was starting to get tired of Eclipse, but after spending a weekend tinkering with Visual Studio and C# and being constantly annoyed by it's stupid behaviour and dodgy code completion I'm back to loving Eclipse again.

It's not much different I fear. Especially the upcoming 6.0 version seem to steer into an upgrade nightmare, since they changed the plugin-mechanisms and the auto update. I hope 'til the final release there will be a migration assistent.